Europe September 2013

Nissan Leaf is the most common EV in Europe

Fresh Blood Edition

Finally a great month for plug-ins in Europe, with 5.362 units sold, September '13 now stands as the highmark to beat in the future, this brilliant result can is due mostly to two models now selling like hotcakes: The Tesla Model S and the Volvo V60 Plug-In, two high-end cars that sold more in September than most of its competition, that cost half their price.

But the Number One spot this month went for the Nissan Leaf, which sold 1.175 units, selling above the 1.000 figure for the first time and demonstrating again that price matters...

...Or does it? Looking at the rest of the September podium, one might doubt that, because in second came the 70.000$-plus Tesla Model S, with 1.012 new registrations, allowing it to climb six positions to #9 YTD, and the third place went for the 50.000$ Volvo V60 Plug-In (Sold 797 units, most of them in Holland), climbing another position to #5 in the YTD chart.

In fourth came the rock-solid Renault Kangoo ZE with 608 units (Best result of the year) and in fifth we finally see the Renault Zoe, with 579 vehicles sold, a poor result if we remember that in June it had sold 1.358 units and dominated both monthly and YTD charts. Even its stablemate Kangoo ZE sold more this month than the french supermini, so Renault now must be thinking on ways to spur sales (*cough* Discounts *cough*) of its problem-child.

Further down the ranking, we see the Opel Ampera recover one position to #7, still way behind last year performance (A year ago it was #2 with 3.491 sales), and in #15 it's now the Renault Fluence ZE, just one unit ahead (304 vs 303) of the #16 Peugeot iOn.

Pl	Europe	Sept.	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	1.175	7.343	21	4
2	Renault Zoe	579	6.564	19	21
3	Renault Kangoo ZE	608	4.397	13	3
4	Toyota Prius Plug-In	205	2.738	8	5
5	Volvo V60 Plug-In	797	2.472	7	22
6	Renault Twizy	201	2.380	7	1
7	Opel Ampera	217	1.649	5	2
8	Smart Fortwo ED	177	1.627	5	12
9	Tesla Model S	1.012	1.298	4	N/A
10	Chevrolet Volt	31	863	3	11
11	Mitsubishi I-Miev	55	637	2	8
12	Citröen C-Zero	11	434	1	6
13	Goupil G3	39	418	1	14
14 15	Bolloré Blue Car Renault Fluence ZE	70 48	358 304	1 1	9 10
	TOTAL	5.362	34.293